Lightweight Challege: Nick vs. Greg - 1 RyanCarrWeber

After the brothers were cleared from the ring, the next combattants were announced quickly. First, Nick entered the ring, winning the praise of the female fans by flirting with those he passed on the way to the ring. He stood in his corner, at 14 standing 5'8" and weighing in at 136 pounds, and waited for his opponent. Greg walked in to a mixed greeting. In his singlet, he looked even bigger than the mere 18-pound weight advantage he really had over the novice. He got up into the ring, stretching to his full 5'10" and staring accross at Nick. Unlike in the previous match, these two had no previous knowledge of each other (except that Greg wrestled amateur and Nick was about to begin his first match of any sort), and they began by feeling each other out.

The bell rang. Nick tried to do what he'd seen on TV, a collar-and-elbow opening to the match, but Greg brought in the amateur skill quickly with a single-leg takedown that landed him on top of Nick, who turned over onto his stomach as he fell. It looked like this would be an amateur match as Greg pulled Nick into a half-neslon, trying to turn him over. Nick was unable to fend off against the seasoned amateur, and was soon turned. Greg, however, instinctively got up after the ref counted one, and his small lapse allowed Nick to scramble outside the ring to regroup. Greg cursed his mistake and watched carefully as Nick stepped up onto the apron and into the ring. The two met at the center, standing chest-to-chest in a brief staredown which the cocky amateur ended with a shove. Nick retaliated with another of the same, and soon the two were locked up.

Nick pulled Greg into a headlock, and Greg pushed the freshman into the ropes. Nick returned with a clothesline which Greg ducked, and Nick bounced off the opposite ropes. Greg finished the boy's circuit with a knee to the gut, which sent Nick somersaulting to the mat. Nick was up soon, and Greg pulled him into a front-facelock, which he turned into a suplex, sending Nick's back to the mat with force. Greg got up and took a moment to point out and laugh at Nick's leopard trunks, but the attention drawn to it only made the girls in the arena cheer harder for Nick. Nick got to his feet eventually, but Greg was waiting with a clothesline which took him right back down. Nick was feeling all the drops he'd taken, and Greg saw this and took advantage with a stomp to the gut. Nick curled up into a ball, and Greg pulled him to his feet and to the center of the mat, in position to finish him off.

Greg bent Nick over, placing his head between his legs, and hooked the boy's waist. Before Greg could piledrive the boy, though, Nick back-body dropped Greg, and then sat down onto his chest and began choking the amateur with the shoulder strap of his singlet. The ref intervened, and Nick got up. When Greg followed, Nick was waiting with a dropkick that sent the amateur back into a corner. Nick approached and nailed Greg with a shoulder-block to the chest. He took the cocky sophomore's wrist and irish whipped him into the opposite corner, following up with an attempt at another shoulder-block which Greg dodged, leaving Nick to hit the turnbuckle hard. Greg did a single-leg takedown, and rolled Nick into a small package, but the boy kicked out at two. They both got up, and this time Nick took charge with a high-kick to Greg's chest that sent him into the ropes.

Nick bounced Greg into the ropes, and tripped the amateur down onto his stomach. He dropped an elbow on Greg's lower back, and the sophomore turned over. Nick grabbed each of the amateur's ankles with one hand, and wrapped his legs into a figure-four leg lock. Greg winced and struggled, but Nick held the hold. The amateur pulled himself slowly towards the rope, his only hope of escape, and finally reached it. Nick broke the hold immediately, and pulled a now-limping amateur to his feet. Greg was slammed in the center of the mat, where Nick covered him, hooking the leg to be sure. The ref got to two and a half before Greg kicked out, and Nick pulled the amateur to his feet.

A well-executed Perfect Plex was applied, but still a two-count was all Nick could get. He pilled Greg up, and the amateur retook control with a hard right to Nick's young gut. Nick was doubled over, and easily DDT'd to the mat, where Greg got him into a camel clutch. Nick refused to submit, and Greg sat back as far as he could till finally he was sitting on Nick's lower back as he bent the boy backwards. But Nick held on, and eventually Greg gave up. He pulled Nick to his feet, and finished the move he had attempted before, piledriving Nick's head to the canvas. Standing over Nick, with one foot on each side, Greg pulled the boy's feet up, and sat down on his chest, tucking him into a tightly pinned ball as the ref counted 1...2...3.